Name-plate for rubbers.



A. C. BOOTH. NAME PLATE FOR RUBBERIS.

APPLICATION FILED on. 6. m1.

Patented Jan. 21, 1919.

INVENTOR WITN SSES XI 4:

ATTORNEY ALBA C.

BOOTH, OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT.

NAME-PLATE FOR RUBBEBS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1919.

Application filed October 6, 1917. Serial No. 195,139.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBA C. BOOTH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Burlington, in the county of Ghittenden and State ofVermont, have invented new and useful Improvements in Name-Plates forRubbers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in rubbers and especially withreference to the provision of name plates for attachment to rubbers andbearing the name of the owner of the rubbers, so that the rubbers can bereadily identified and 'to prevent the loss thereof or their being takenby mistake by some other person than the owner, the object of theinvention being to provide simple and inexpensive means whereby anyplates or other identifying devices may be readily attached to rubbersand arranged and exposed on the inner side of the sole, in the instep,where the name plate can be readily seen and where the wear on therubbers is slight.

The invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangementof devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the acompanying drawings Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section,of a rubber provided with means for holding a name plate on the innerside of and I at the instep portion of the sole, andconstructed andarranged in accordance with my invention.

.fFi'g. 2 is a detailed plan of the same.

Fig. 3 is a detailed transverse sectional view of the same.

The rubber, indicated at 1, may be of any suitable construction and isprovided with the usual sole 2 and with the lining 3 on the inner orupper side of the sole.

In accordance with my invention I provide the lining, in that portionthereof of the instep, with a sight opening 4 of suitable dimensions,and which is here shown as of oblong rectangular form, but which may beof any suitable shape. This sight opening is covered by a transparentpane 5, of celluloid is secured at points around three sides of innersole, so that or other suitable-material which the sight opening, to theunder side of the sole lining. The rear end of the pane is slightlyspaced from the corresponding end of the sight opening, as at 6 to forma trans verse slot 7 through which a plate, card or tag 8 bearing thename, or the name and address, of the owner of the rubbers may bepassed, so that the said' name or other identifying plate may bearranged between the sole and the lining and under the pane'an exposedto view through the pane and the sigh't opening.

Each rubber of a pair will be provided with one of my improved name oridentifying plates and owing to the location thereof in the instep, thesame is conspicuously exposed to view and the ownership of the rubbersis clearly established, so that mistakes may be readily avoided in theuse of the rubbers and persons prevented from mistakingly using rubbersother than their own.

I call the rubbers thus provided with my improved a name plates oridentifying devices Autographic Rubbers. It w1ll be understood that thepractical embodiment of my invention involves only 'a very inex pensiveconstruction of the sole lining or the same may be readily produced atslight cost, and it will be also understood that the name plate may bereadily placed in the rubber by the owner.

While I have herein shown and described my invention I would have itunderstood that changes may be made in theform, proportion andconstruction of the several parts, without departing from the spirit ofmy-invention, and within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim z- A rubber having a liningprovided with a sight opening anda transparent pane coveriug the sightopening and terminating short ofone end thereof, thereby providing aslot at said end of the opening for the insertion of an identifying cardor plate under the pane and for exposure through the sight opening.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ALBA G. BOOTH.

